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MOOC is the initialism „Massive Open Online Courses”, and describes online courses available online for free, for a wide audience to provide accessible, open information and opportunity for learning. There are several MOOC providers already, operating worldwide (like edX, Coursera or Udacity). | MOOC is the initialism „Massive Open Online Courses”, and describes online courses available online for free, for a wide audience to provide accessible, open information and opportunity for learning. There are several MOOC providers already, operating worldwide (like edX, Coursera or Udacity). | ||
The Firefox OS course is part of the regional [https://kmooc.uni-obuda.hu/ K-MOOC] platform, a Hungarian-language MOOC platform operated by Óbuda University. The K-MOOC platform is expected to serve any and all higher education institutions (colleges & universities alike) in the Carpathian Basin where the language of teaching is Hungarian with online courses in diverse topics from jazz through ergonomics & pedagogy to computer sciences and programming. | The Firefox OS course is part of the regional [https://kmooc.uni-obuda.hu/ K-MOOC] platform, a Hungarian-language MOOC platform operated by Óbuda University. The K-MOOC platform is expected to serve any and all higher education institutions (colleges & universities alike) in the Carpathian Basin where the language of teaching is Hungarian with online courses in diverse topics from jazz through ergonomics & pedagogy to computer sciences and programming. K-MOOC courses are available to students of 16 Hungarian higher education institutions and in 13 additional institutions in 5 countries in Central & Eastern-Europe ([http://kmooc.uni-obuda.hu/csatlakozott-intezmenyek as of July 2015]). | ||
The Firefox OS course has been growing in reach since its start and is expected to launch in at least 6 Hungarian institutions for the 2015/2016 fall semester, with discussions with additional institutes still ongoing. | |||
== History == | == History == | ||